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Overview

Ferdinand A. Gul is affiliated with the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia and has contributed extensively to the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular focus on accounting. Their research spans several subfields, including accounting, strategy and management, finance, gender studies, and management information systems.

The scientist's work covers main topics such as auditing, earnings management, governance, corporate finance and governance, financial markets and investment strategies, risk management in financial firms, corporate social responsibility reporting, political influence and corporate strategies, and financial reporting and valuation research.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Ferdinand A. Gul include Karen Lai, Matthew Mount, Steven Yik-Pui Low, Zhifeng Yang, and Haoran Zhu.

Among the venues where their research is frequently published are the SSRN Electronic Journal, Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory, Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Business Finance & Accounting.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Ferdinand A. Gul include:

  • Corporate social responsibility, overconfident CEOs and empire building: Agency and stakeholder theoretic perspectives (2020), Journal of Business Research
  • Accounting Personnel Quality, Audit Risk, and Auditor Responses (2023), Auditing A Journal of Practice & Theory

Other relevant publications in the database, while not authored by Gul, include:

  • Are Corporate General Counsels in Top Management Effective Monitors? Evidence from Stock Price Crash Risk (2020), European Accounting Review
  • Financial statement comparability and accounting fraud (2022), Journal of Business Finance & Accounting
  • Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards (2022), Journal of Corporate Finance

Best Publications

  • Discretionary-Accruals Models and Audit Qualifications

    Eli Bartov;Ferdinand A. Gul;J.S.L.Judy S. L. Tsui

  • Discretionary-Accruals Models and Audit Qualifications

    Eli Bartov;Ferdinand A. Gul;Judy S.L. Tsui

  • Does board gender diversity improve the informativeness of stock prices

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Bin Srinidhi;Anthony C. Ng

  • BOARD LEADERSHIP, OUTSIDE DIRECTORS EXPERTISE AND VOLUNTARY CORPORATE DISCLOSURES

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Sidney Leung

  • Ownership concentration, foreign shareholding, audit quality, and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from China

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Jeong-Bon Kim;Annie A. Qiu

  • Female Directors and Earnings Quality

    Bin Srinidhi;Ferdinand A. Gul;Judy Tsui

  • Earnings quality: Some evidence on the role of auditor tenure and auditors industry expertise

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Simon Yu Kit Fung;Bikki Jaggi;Bikki Jaggi

  • Family control, board independence and earnings management: Evidence based on Hong Kong firms

    Bikki Jaggi;Bikki Jaggi;Sidney C M Leung;Ferdinand Gul;Ferdinand Gul

  • Litigation risk and audit fees: evidence from UK firms cross-listed on US markets

    Ananth Seetharaman;Ferdinand A. Gul;Stephen G. Lynn

  • Do Individual Auditors Affect Audit Quality? Evidence from Archival Data

    Ferdinand Akthar Gul;Donghui Wu;Zhifeng Yang

  • Discretionary Accounting Accruals, Managers' Incentives, and Audit Fees*

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Charles J. P. Chen;Judy S. L. Tsui

  • The effects of management accounting systems, perceived environmental uncertainty and decentralization on managerial performance: A test of three-way interaction

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Yew Ming Chia

  • Auditors' Response to Political Connections and Cronyism in Malaysia

    Ferdinand A. Gul

  • The Differential Effects of Auditors' Nonaudit and Audit Fees on Accrual Quality*

    Bin N. Srinidhi;Ferdinand A. Gul

  • A test of the free cash flow and debt monitoring hypotheses:: Evidence from audit pricing

    Ferdinand A Gul;Judy S L. Tsui

  • Political connection and cost of debt: Some Malaysian evidence

    Mark Anthony Gerard Bliss;Ferdinand A. Gul

  • Investment opportunity set, corporate governance practices and firm performance

    Marion Hutchinson;Ferdinand A Gul

  • A NOTE ON CORPORATE SOCIAL DISCLOSURE PRACTICES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE*

    B.H. Andrew;F.A. Gul;J.E. Guthrie;H.Y. Teoh

  • The Effects of Management Accounting Systems and Environmental Uncertainty on Small Business Managers' Performance

    Ferdinand A. Gul

  • Auditor independence: evidence on the joint effects of auditor tenure and nonaudit fees

    Ferdinand A. Gul;Bikki L. Jaggi;Gopal V. Krishnan

Frequent Co-Authors

Bikki Jaggi
Bikki Jaggi Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Gopal V. Krishnan
Gopal V. Krishnan Bentley University
Suresh Radhakrishnan
Suresh Radhakrishnan The University of Texas at Dallas
Jeong-Bon Kim
Jeong-Bon Kim City University of Hong Kong
Nava Subramaniam
Nava Subramaniam Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University
Eli Bartov
Eli Bartov New York University
Christina Lee
Christina Lee University of Queensland
Piyush Sharma
Piyush Sharma Curtin University
Louis T. W. Cheng
Louis T. W. Cheng Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
James Guthrie
James Guthrie University of Kansas

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